Para Sports
Asian Para Archery C'ships: Rakesh Kumar, Sheetal Devi win multiple golds
While Rakesh Kumar won three gold medals, Sheetal Devi finished with two golds at the Asian Para Archery C'ships.
Compound archer Rakesh Kumar ( Souce: World Archery)
Rakesh Kumar won three gold medals at the Asian Archery Championships 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday. He won gold in men's individual, men's doubles, and mixed doubles in the compound category.
India finished the championship with nine medals: four gold, four silver, and one bronze medal.
Rakesh registered a 145-144 win over Indonesian player Ken Swagumilang in the final of men's individual to complete his hattrick of gold medal from the event.
Earlier, he partnered with Suraj Singh in men's compound doubles to win his first gold from the event where they won 147-144 against the Chinese Taipei pair in the final.
After that, he combined with Sheetal Devi to double his gold tally with a 154-149 victory against the Indonesian pair in the final of compound mixed doubles.
16-year-old Sheetal Devi partnered with Jyoti to win the final in women's doubles against South Korean pair 148-137 to clinch the fourth gold of the event for India.
Sheetal Devi missed out on a complete clean sweep in the compound open category after she lost her final against a Singapore player on a shoot-off after a 142-142 draw after five ends. Both archers shot a 10 in the shoot-off but the Singapore archer won on the virtue of being closest to the centre.
In the men's W1 doubles category, Naveen Dalal and Ansari took the silver medal after they lost their final against the South Korean pair.
List of medalists from the Asian Para Archery Championships:
Compound Men Open - Rakesh Kumar - Gold
Compound Women Open Doubles - Jyoti Baliyan and Sheetal Devi - Gold
Compound Men Open Doubles - Rakesh Kumar and Suraj Singh - Gold
Compound Open Mixed Team - Rakesh Kumar and Sheetal Devi - Gold
Compound Women Open - Sheetal Devi - Silver
Recurve Women Open Doubles - Pooja Jatyan and Pooja Khanna - Silver
Recurve Men Open Doubles - Harvinder Singh and Vivek Chikara Silver
Men W1 Doubles - Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari and Naveen Dalal Silver
Compound Women Open - Sarita - Bronze
